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A SearchCIO.com blogWed, 25 Mar 2015 16:33:50 +0000hourly1By: TraceyPSmithhttp://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/total-cio/it-services-outsourcing-do-you-have-an-%e2%80%98india-plus-one%e2%80%99-strategy/#comment-492
Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:44:19 +0000http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/total-cio/?p=881#comment-492Oh. Also, I have been reading up on the grassroot movements of anti-offshoring. You should make sure your readers realize the long term negative impact offshoring can have on their business and their credibility.
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Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:38:58 +0000http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/total-cio/?p=881#comment-491Rachel,

This is an interesting strategy. I have discussed it with some other senior IT colleagues. We were discussing the Offshoring failures that have occurred recently. We were debating options and one option that has worked for some companies is to actually reduce their Offshoring and change their IT staffing model.

Instead of trying to reduce IT resource budget by hiring Offshored, cheaper labor, they reduced their U.S.-based IT staff and kept only the most advanced, experienced, software/system agile engineers. Then they only hired those type of engineers. They stopped worrying on the “it won’t scale” mantra about having a smaller group of IT staff who can wear multiple hats. They pay these smaller crews very well, and work them very hard, and require them to handle multiple IT software/systems.
They are covered on resources quitting or being off, by having enough of the versatile engineers (my colleagues referred to them as IT heroes) to buffer when someone quits or is absence. They reduced their middle management resource cost and lower-end technologists and just kept the cream of the crop, but pay them well enough to keep them and keep them motivated.
I am now professing this strategy and recommend it be considered. It was a hard mind change. It is a radical concept and seems illogical based on all we have been taught and read from Forrester, Gardner, etc. However, those channels have much to gain from recommending consulting firms and offshoring firms.
Summary: Save money on IT – Lay-off or early-retire any non-advanced IT staff (this includes reducing middle management – a large burden on IT budgets), and hire only the best IT engineers (have a trusted, respected IT engineer review prospects technical prowise and adaptability), pay them well. Your budget will be reduced and it does scale.